Over in the Tucson trafficking thread, anon found this Brit, "SIR" John Parker. Deep connections, including sale of a giant British concrete company to CEMEX.
Chairman of Carnival Cruise Lines,
ex-non-exec-chairman of the Bank of fucking England,
chairman of National Grid (THE British electric & nat gas company – think Qatar),
pallet & paper companies (think timber & lumber),
connections with Dubai World, etc. etc. etc.
>>1628455 Tuscon thread
>Not exec, director. Think tippy top.
>Holy Crown Royal, anon. You just hit a big kahuna.
Putting sauce over in general for now, until we can find a direct connection to the ring.
>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/2784579/Profile-Sir-John-Parker-National-Grid-chairman.html
Being an influence in the boardroom is a way of life for the National Grid chairman.
"I have been on 12 quoted company boards, eight of which I have chaired, over the past 25 years," says National Grid chairman Sir John in his Northern Irish brogue, passing me a sheet listing them all.
The list includes three dual-listed companies - cruise ship operator Carnival (London and New York), pallets giant Brambles (London and Sydney) and paper group Mondi (London and Johannesburg).
<pallets & paper are made from "timber & lumber" >>1622702
There are also two major demergers - Lattice Group from BG Group and P&O Princess from P&O - as well as two sales to foreign companies (P&O to DP World of Dubai and concrete group RMC to Mexico's Cemex) - and two major mergers (Lattice with National Grid and P&O Princess with Carnival).
As well as chairing National Grid, his current portfolio of non-exec jobs includes companies in the Middle East (DP World), continental Europe (aircraft-maker EADS Airbus), South Africa (Mondi) and the US, where Carnival is also the only company to be a member of both the FTSE 100 and America's benchmark S&P 500 index.
Somehow Sir John, knighted in 2001 for services to defence and shipbuilding, also finds time to be a senior non-executive director of the Court of the Bank of England, a member of the Prime Minister's Business Council for Britain and Chancellor of Southampton University. No wonder he carried off the top award at the Non-Executive Director Awards set up by investment bank KBC Peel Hunt earlier this month.
Sir John believes there are "three pillars" around which to run a company
Even now, he remains true to his shipping roots as governor of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and a member of the General Committee of Lloyds Register of Shipping.
>http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-1715103/Interview-Super-chairman-Sir-John-Parker.html
Pouring tea in his National Grid office overlooking Trafalgar Square where he splits his time with his other major chairmanship of mining giant Anglo American,
His global view of corporate life is a long way from his first high-profile job when, after qualifying as a naval architect and working his way up to chief executive at the Austin & Pickersgill shipyard, he was parachuted back to his roots at Harland & Wolff, builder of the Titanic, to oversee its privatisation
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he was chairman of P&O ports when it was sold to Dubai World and of cement group RMC, which was bought by Mexico's Cemex -